A look at stallions and their progeny impact horse racing industry.
Santa Clara;s victory was sweetly timed – she is out of an unraced full-sister to champion sire Silvano and has a full-sister (#35) on offer at the 2018 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale this week
Scott Bros stallion The Apache celebrated his first winner when the Gavin van Zyl-trained Adorable Analia stormed home to shed her maiden at her third start at Greyville on Sunday
With ten lots coming up on our two April sales, Nadeson Park stallion Time Thief registered a smart first Gr1 winner
Golden Sword’s finest moment came in the Gr1 Investec Derby at Epsom
Treble Gr1 winning son of Dynasty breaks the ice with early first winner
With only five runners on the track, Rathmor Stud stallion Noble Tune got off the mark at Scottsville on Wednesday
He is one of the very best sons of multiple champion sire Silvano and his 9 lots are turning heads after the first day of public inspections at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale on Thursday
Highlands four-times Equus Champion sire Dynasty underlined his superb versatility and extraordinary ability to strike at the top-level again at Kenilworth on Saturday
Varsfontein Stud’s young stallion Master Of My Fate broke the ice just weeks after his first runner
Klawervlei Stud’s Pomodoro was represented by his first winner when his two-year-old son Lethal Weapon made a winning debut
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
